I’m a queer-for-short Black American who loves to write and doodle, and is doing their best. Also nerd-adjacent. Has been caught VTubing. Typically they/them.
I’m a queer-for-short Black American who loves to write and doodle, and is doing their best. Also nerd-adjacent. Has been caught VTubing. Typically they/them.
Bluesky allowed people to include the n-word in their usernames (www.engadget.com)
Before this week, Bluesky did not have an automated system in place to prevent people from including the n-word in their handle..
My feelings right now for myself and all my LGBTQ fam
What are tankies? What does sea-lioning mean?
I’ve run across these terms several times, but without enough context to figure out what they mean. Could someone help me out, please?...
Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads (www.mediamatters.org)
PSA: You Can't Delete Your Threads Account Without Also Deleting Instagram (www.makeuseof.com)
Meta's Threads app has a major flaw: you can't delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram account.
The Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan, blocking debt relief for millions of borrowers (www.businessinsider.com)
The Supreme Court ruled Biden's student-loan forgiveness is illegal, meaning borrowers will resume payments without debt cancellation this year.
Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake (techcrunch.com)
An internal investigation by IRL's board of directors found that 95% of the app's reported 20 million users were "automated or from bots."
"Antiwoke" magazin on kbin.social posting bullshit like "how to end Wokeness" and "Time to reject the extrem trans lobby harming our society" How to report ? he is the moderator of that magazin. (calckey.social)
@ernest how do I report a Magazin on kbin.social ? There is a usere called "ps" who is posting to his own "antiwoke" Magazin on kbin.social. Please remove this and dont give them a chance to etablish them self on kbin.social. When I report his stuff it will go to him because he is the moderator of the magazin? Seems like a...
Japan Sends Man to G7 Meeting on Women’s Empowerment (time.com)
The incident highlights ongoing struggles with gender parity in Japan—which ranks lowest among G7 member states on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index.
Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous
Hey folks! Just realized something that makes Lemmy different from Reddit. Because of the federation, your votes are not technically anonymous on Lemmy. At least, I think....
Beehive: an update to defederating from sh.itjust.works (sh.itjust.works)
A modest proposal: roundtable on defederation
I apologize if this has been asked before, but I'm wondering if it would be feasible to implement a new approach to defederation that offers the option of choosing between complete or partial defederation from another instance....
Reddit CEO calls unpaid moderators' concerns "noise" - time to send a message he won't forget. (odysee.com)
👉 https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/13/reddit-ceo-blackouts-no-revenue-impact/ 👉 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1668346845142339585...
what does it mean that Beehaw "defederated" from lemmy.world?
I thought I understood, but I still have Beehaw content in my feed, so I guess I don't understand after all... Can someone dumb it down for me?
Isn't it ironic.... that we all left reddit because 3rd party apps were being killed off, and came to a place where there are no 3rd party apps.
edited to meet rule #3!
Lack of rage bait
Something here felt different, and I think I realized what....
Have encountered racism, hate speech or homophobia on the fediverse yet?
If so, do you consistently report it and get the feeling that it gets dealt with? Of course there are instances dedicated solely to being human trash
OC Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? (blog.bloonface.com)
I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…
Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org getting hammered with traffic because of spez ama
Both were down for me before, they seem to be up right now but just made this account on Lemmy.blahaj.zone (Henry is the name of my actual blahaj lol). It's probably because of the traffic influx from reddit refugees from the absolutely disastrous spez ama (where he doubles down on everything and doesn't apologize at all)....